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Trump ridicules 'Morning Joe' hosts in tweets about bleeding face-lift

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23:  U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a signing ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 in the East Room of the White House June 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a signing ceremony for the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017 in the East Room of the White House June 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
By Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
June 29, 2017

In a two-part tweet Thursday morning, President Donald Trump slammed "Morning Joe" hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, writing that the show had low ratings and claiming that Brzezinski "was bleeding badly from a face-lift" during an encounter in January.

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The tweets were the latest and most vicious anti-media statements made by the president in recent weeks.

Trump wrote in a tweet around 8 a.m. that he heard that the “poorly rated” MSNBC morning show “speaks badly of me.”

“Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago (three) nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me? She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” he wrote.

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Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

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